First Human Cloning

Posted by Alex in Medicine, Science & Tech on January 21, 2008 at 2:48 am


Andrew French and colleagues at Stemagen, a tiny San Diego biotech company, became the first to successfully clone a human embryo using DNA from a skin cell of an adult man:

Stemagen CEO Samuel Wood said the privately held company accomplished the feat in humans in May 2007. Because of the South Korean controversy, the company did not want to reveal its success until the work could be verified through genetic testing and then published in a peer-reviewed journal, Wood said.

And that took months.

“We wanted to rekindle interest in this area with a very detailed article describing exactly how to do it,” Wood said.

Meanwhile, other scientific teams published journal articles that had scientists and patient activists buzzing.

And whose DNA did they use for the cloning experiment? None other than Stemagen CEO Samuel Wood’s: Sign On San Diego (Photo: Charlie Neuman / Union-Tribune) | This is London article


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7 comments to "First Human Cloning"

  1. Yummy
    January 21st, 2008 at 5:13 am

    Little known fact: Andrew French himself is a clone of Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

  2. Christophe
    January 21st, 2008 at 6:51 am

    All of us who that can wait 10, 20, 30 years and more will be amazed by the progress and abuses in that field.

    I can't wait (figure of speech) to see a supersoldier. Clone Wars vs Universal Soldier?

  3. Pol x
    January 21st, 2008 at 7:16 am

    Great break through etc etc.

    Now down to the question on all out minds.

    Why didn't they use a skin cell from ANGELINA JOLIE?

    Good gravy people, why would anyone want an Andrew French of their own?

  4. FetishForPerception
    January 21st, 2008 at 8:49 am

    That's not true. I'm pretty sure the first human cloning was achieved in 1995, although not revealed until '98. Most people don't know about it because they're failed to be much media coverage on the whole thing.

  5. ¿Z?
    January 21st, 2008 at 6:45 pm

    personally i dont think they (clones) will be the same as the cloned. its a different person.

  6. Sid Morrison
    January 23rd, 2008 at 11:04 am

    Super. Let's create human beings so that we can kill them and harvest their cells and organs. Great breakthrough.

  7. big "G"
    February 5th, 2008 at 10:42 pm

    Do you remember how careful scientist were in the beginning with genetically altered corn? Well it seems to me that before to long any genes of cloned or genetically altered humans will be mixed back into the sacred untainted gene pool. Won't this be the beginning of a group of mutant genes being released on society. Surely this could have it's assets, but it could also cause some irreversible damage. You know what they say. It's not nice to fool mother nature.


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